Example sentences of "a [adj] period in " in BNC.
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| 1 | G/C Ilbery , now a doctor living in Australia , was the last man to fly an operational sortie from the now-abandoned airfield in the spring of 1945 , at the end of a bloody period in the anti-shipping strikes from Dallachy and nearby RAF Banff . |
| 2 | But according to a report by an observer from the US National Marine Fisheries Service , during a 6-week period in summer 1986 , a single Japanese squid vessel working in Alaskan waters killed 53 dolphins and porpoises and 14 fur seals by entanglement in its nets . |
| 3 | His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled . |
| 4 | Second , a study of problem drug users known to eight agencies in the South Tyneside area during a six-month period in 1981 ( Pattison et al .1982 ) produced an estimated annual prevalence rate of 1.2 known opioid users per 1,000 of the adult population , compared to about 5 per 1,000 in Wirral . |
| 5 | It was reported in Parliament , for example , that of thirty-two reported instances of ‘ highway theft ’ over a six-month period in South Kensington in 1932 , only one of these was treated as ‘ robbery with violence ’ . |
| 6 | After a further period in the translation agency of a chemical firm , she returned to England and had a child . |
| 7 | But , apart from a 10-minute period in the second half during which Dinamo appeared to toy with the Blues , Linfield did not let their heads drop . |
| 8 | As far as the RAF was concerned , they had this nice little lull when losses fell substantially , so it was for us a calm period in the storm . |
| 9 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 10 | Second , to make possible a detailed account of specific changes in villages , over a 35-year period in which Turkey virtually accomplished the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society ; population up by a factor of 2.5 , GNP per capital up by a factor of around 3 ; more than 20 million people recruited into non-agricultural occupations . |
| 11 | It will be available for a limited period in a number of pubs including the City of Mabgate and the Grove Inn in Leeds , the Marine Hall in Fleetwood , Cooky 's Devonshire Arms in Bradford . |
| 12 | Options may , however , be exercised for a limited period in certain specified circumstances , including death , ceasing employment on account of injury , disability , pregnancy or redundancy , retirement , the sale of the business or subsidiary for which the employee works or ( at the discretion of the Committee ) if the employee ceases to be employed in any other circumstances . |
| 13 | To coincide with a CAMRA 21st birthday party on April 14th , the Queens Head will also be the base for a press launch of Gales Festival mild , a special brew available for a limited period in 21 Gales-tied houses . |
| 14 | The New Sculpture is written off as ‘ a meaningless period in English sculpture ’ ; Gill is ‘ more like a predator than a collaborator ’ and even his typography is dismissed with contempt ; we hear twice that Muirhead Bone , a steadfast and astute supporter , was an unimaginative artist ; Charles Holden 's London Transport Headquarters at 55 Broadway ( for which he received the RIBA Medal ) is ‘ practical but dull ’ ; and the love-hate relationship with Moore is superficially handled . |
| 15 | This was a dark period in our history . |
| 16 | After this , the figure of El Cid entered a dark period in which historian after historian , following a 1849 work of the Dutch orientalist R. Dozy , contrived to portray Rodrigo as a cruel , treacherous and often barbarian character . |
| 17 | In particular , the period from 1929 to 1931 , when the PCF was dominated by the unrelentingly sectarian leadership of Barbe and Celor , seemingly obsessed with the sole task of eliminating deviationists from the party line , with all the catastrophic consequences that this entailed ( reduced party membership , loss of electoral support , reduced sales of L'Humanite ) , represents a dark period in the history of the party itself . |
| 18 | He thus witnessed the birth of Saudi Arabia and could observe its growth and development at a crucial period in its history . |
| 19 | The years immediately following 725/6 must have been a crucial period in the establishment of Aethelbald of Mercia 's domination of southern England . |
| 20 | The four months from March to July , 1989 , represent a crucial period in the research . |
| 21 | For the ninth century was a crucial period in the ecclesiastical history of western Europe . |
| 22 | By sheer grace God will not permit us to live even for a brief period in a dream world … . |
| 23 | For a brief period in the province 's history , its affairs became entwined in the broader struggles for the monarchy . |
| 24 | The excavations , a joint venture between British and Italian authorities ( Provincia d'Isernia ) and directed for the last twelve years by the School 's director , Dr Richard Hodges , have shown that for a brief period in the early ninth century San Vincenzo was an exceptional place with far-flung connections . |
| 25 | For a brief period in the Spring of 1987 , London was the only English metropolitan centre with more than one evening daily paper — it had three — having endured five years when only one , the Standard , was published . |
| 26 | He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Belgrade , and was also for a brief period in the early 1980s the Mayor of the city . |
| 27 | Britain firmly and — except for a brief period in March 1951 — consistently advocated the conclusion of an early peace treaty . |
| 28 | This is apparent in the emergence of the physical disk of the sun as Aten , first named as such in the Middle Kingdom , to the status of a great god for a brief period in the Eighteenth Dynasty . |
| 29 | The Aden episode lasted from September 1926 until May 1927 : approximately nine months ; a brief period in Nizan 's existence but one which had far reaching consequences . |
| 30 | Her formal education , after a brief period in Islington , was in a school in Heidelberg where , as well as developing her musical talents , she acquired a facility in languages which was to be useful in her later career . |